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Toledo television reports that the Skillman and Thompson foundations have hired a chief education officer for their charter-school nonprofit are inaccurate, according to Skillman.
The two foundations are conducting a national search for an executive to oversee New Schools of Detroit, the nonprofit they created in August to oversee any charter high schools they may open in the city of Detroit, said Bill Hanson, director of communications and administration at the Detroit-based Skillman Foundation.
But a handful of other candidates are still in the running, he said.
Toledo television stations have been reporting Wednesday that Skillman and the Thompson Foundation have hired Eugene Sanders, superintendent of the Toledo Public Schools.
The foundations plan to hire a chief education officer by the end of the year, regardless of whether they have been granted charters by Grand Valley State University.
The two foundations in August submitted a proposal to GVSU, one of many charter authorizers in the state, to open all 15 of the new high schools approved for Detroit in 2003.
During the application process with GVSU, the chief academic officer will develop curriculum models for an eventual charter school or schools, Hanson said.